Monday, March 31, 2014

Top Ten Gateway Books In My Reading Journey

Top Ten Tuesday is here again! Are you excited? I'm excited. Okay, let's go. This week's theme is The Top Ten Gateway Books/Authors In My Reading Journey. I'll be featuring books/series from my childhood, middle school, high school, now and everything in between and giving single sentence explanations for each book. I tried to keep them in order of when in my life I read each book. If we have any of the same gateway books, let me know! I'd love to hear what you have to say.

1. The Bailey School Kids series by Debbie Dadey for introducing me to long, chapter book series and, in hind sight, introducing me to paranormal/fantastical books.

2. Amelia's 6th-Grade Notebook by Marissa Moss for helping me through those awkward years and also for teaching me that books with pictures aren't only for babies.

3. Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli for being the first book that I truly remember being effected by and for making me a happier person.

4. The Pretty Little Liars series by Sara Shepard for being the first mystery style book I ever read and for inspiring me to create a book blog (on the first try in, like, 2009.)

5. Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson for being the first book I read in school that I actually enjoyed and for being one of the first books to show me just how powerful the messages in books can be.

6. Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher for very similar reasons to that of Speak; For giving me all the feels and for sticking with me years after reading it.

7. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald for teaching me that not all classics they make you read in school are incredibly boring and for showing me that symbolism is hella cool.

8. Divergent by Veronica Roth for being the first Dystopian novel/series that I dared to read and for teaching me that just because I like the first book in a series doesn't mean I'll like the rest. (Awkward.)

9. Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs for showing me that just because a book looks scary doesn't mean it is and also for teaching me that I do actually like paranormal-style books (or whatever this is considered.)

10. The Lunar Chronicles series by Marissa Meyer for shocking me into realizing that I do enjoy the sci-fi genre and also for introducing me to the idea of re-imagined twists on fairy-tale re-tellings and the idea of re-tellings in general.

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My name's Ashley. I'm a twenty year old girl from good ol' Ohio who can't resist a good book. Reading has become a big part of my life, so I created this blog to share any and all of my bookish thoughts with you! Join me in my reading journey and get a glimpse of my adventures along the way. Ok? Let's read.